Our low tolerance for negative/uncomfortable emotions causes us to
> Punish their emotions, dismiss them, manipulate them, criticize them, distract them, minimize them
>> Doing this just keeps us feeling ill-equipped to deal with these emotions in ourselves and our kids
>>> Doing this tells our kids that their emotions are unnecessary, invalid, unacceptable, weak. They don't learn the skills on how to DEAL with them in a healthy and resilient way.
We are getting lost in the emotional tsunami, rather than stepping out of it and seeing the control we DO have